I think it's just too easy to write "republicans" in a comment. For a good chunk of the population that's enough to convince them that it's "republicans". Even

I think it's just too easy to write "republicans" in a comment. For a good chunk of the population that's enough to convince them that it's "republicans". Even for the author of the comment, once it's written it has to be defended and you can only become adamant about defending what you said not too long ago.